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A Skipped Test Is a Withdrawal: Make Agent Patches Deposit a Property Before You Freeze a Flake

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The cheapest way to make an agent patch go green is to skip a test. Most gates allow that skip with no compensating deposit, and then let the skip follow the patch into the next patch in the merge queue. Two weeks later nobody can tell whether the suite shrank because the code got safer or because…

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  1. 2026-10-17 20:14 · DEV Community — AI
    A Skipped Test Is a Withdrawal: Make Agent Patches Deposit a Property Before You Freeze a Flake

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